Sergei Akopov
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 308778 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sergei Akopov |
| NOMBRES | Sergei |
| APELLIDO | Akopov |
| FIRMA | AKOPOV S |
| AFILIACIONES | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8883-4856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The seagull of loneliness in the ocean of international anxiety
The article is innovative in the way it brings the history of Russian existentialism into dialogue with current debates in two approaches to world politics: “global International Relations” and “ontological security studies”. Both approaches seek to decentre modern politics, dismantle its hegemonic structures without essentialising new borders, and disentangle the individual Self from the traps of national and imperial ontological insecurities. M…
“Tass Is Authorised to Declare…”
This article combines two approaches: ontological security studies and intertextual analysis of espionage in popular films and television series. It explores the intertextual resonance between cinematic representations of late Cold War Soviet foreign affairs anxieties and the political management of ontological security in contemporary Russia. The article focuses on representations of espionage in the form of American spies and Russian traitors i…
Taking Putin’s jokes seriously
The article analyzes President Vladimir Putin’s gender-based humor as a way of exploring Russia’s ontological insecurity. Our research explores how Russia’s masculine ontological insecurities are trapped in the realities of patriarchy challenged in a contemporary globalized world. We integrate a constructivist ontology with poststructuralist attention to language to understand the role of gender-based humor in the (re)production of gendered hiera…
Sovereignty as ‘organized loneliness
This article studies sovereignty not only in relation to state, identity, or power but also in relation to the distinction between concepts of ‘loneliness’ and ‘solitude.’ Considering this goal, it analyses ‘loneliness’ as a concept with potentially deep explanatory value when posing major questions in political theory. It also explores its relationship with ‘sovereignty’ and ‘political identity.’ Building on the existing literature on the connec…
Madonna versus 'Mother Russia?' Visual Anthropology of Loneliness and Gendered Nationalism on Russian 2021-2023 Political Posters
This article is aimed at transdisciplinary (critical International Relations, visual anthropology, and existential philosophy) analysis of Russian gendered nationalism and masculine ontological insecurities. It explores and re-imagines how visual representations of 'Mother Russia' became signifiers of the phallocentric voice of the Russian gendered state. What can return the voice back to the 'invisible women'? I claim that the political activism…
When Women Speak Phallocentric Positionalities
This article approaches an emerging archipelago of visual biopolitics from two grounds: ontological security studies, and black feminist existentialism. The first perspective deals with visual representations that encapsulate (hu)man anxiety about the imaginary loss of a stable, unique and complete identity. And secondly, feminist existentialism provides an apparatus to reveal how these representations are underpinned by a (hu)man desire to avoid…
Civilizational model and identification of individuals with macropolitical communities (on the problem of sovereignty)
Global Russians’
International audience
The Politics of Russian Revisionism
Russia’s use of force in Ukraine has been described as a challenge to the rule of international law and an event of unilateral intervention. This paper provides a reinterpretation of this standard history of Russian revisionism. Our new history places this practice in a global governance context through an analysis of the politics concerning the international legal norm of ‘non-intervention’ and its legitimate/illegitimate exceptions for collecti…
Russia's 'fortresses of solitude
Based on the distinction between three approaches to loneliness, and the development of the phenomenological and existential framework of loneliness studies, this article explores Russia's discourse of national loneliness on three levels: a) the level of the official discourse of the Russian government; b) the level of political and philosophical concepts; and c) the level of popular media and cinema (with a specific focus on a case-study of the …
Is ‘E’ for ‘Empire’
This article couples framing analyses with social identity issues to provide a critical discourse analysis of the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony, along with the various media depictions surrounding it. Moreover, it explores the idea of ‘derzhava’ as a rediscovered political narrative/frame in Russian symbolic politics. We argue that images and symbols alluding to different events in the past and present play significant roles in the social const…
Cultures of power in post-communist Russia
It has once again recently become evident for many political and International Relations (IR) scholars in the field of Russian Studies that the purely institutional approach to the perspectives of
Communication without ‘The Enemy’
This article focuses on the discussion of means that can help to replace political narratives of the “enemies” with political narratives of reconciliation. Among the three intellectual obstacles we explore the theoretical grounds of agonism, the abstract ideas of tolerance, democracy and protection of human rights, and the ambiguity of the concept of “national identity.” We conclude that the agonism and consensus pluralism discourses should be sy…
Global Russians’
International audience
Russia's 'fortresses of solitude
Based on the distinction between three approaches to loneliness, and the development of the phenomenological and existential framework of loneliness studies, this article explores Russia's discourse of national loneliness on three levels: a) the level of the official discourse of the Russian government; b) the level of political and philosophical concepts; and c) the level of popular media and cinema (with a specific focus on a case-study of the …
Taking Putin’s jokes seriously
The article analyzes President Vladimir Putin’s gender-based humor as a way of exploring Russia’s ontological insecurity. Our research explores how Russia’s masculine ontological insecurities are trapped in the realities of patriarchy challenged in a contemporary globalized world. We integrate a constructivist ontology with poststructuralist attention to language to understand the role of gender-based humor in the (re)production of gendered hiera…
Sovereignty as ‘organized loneliness
This article studies sovereignty not only in relation to state, identity, or power but also in relation to the distinction between concepts of ‘loneliness’ and ‘solitude.’ Considering this goal, it analyses ‘loneliness’ as a concept with potentially deep explanatory value when posing major questions in political theory. It also explores its relationship with ‘sovereignty’ and ‘political identity.’ Building on the existing literature on the connec…
Communication without ‘The Enemy’
This article focuses on the discussion of means that can help to replace political narratives of the “enemies” with political narratives of reconciliation. Among the three intellectual obstacles we explore the theoretical grounds of agonism, the abstract ideas of tolerance, democracy and protection of human rights, and the ambiguity of the concept of “national identity.” We conclude that the agonism and consensus pluralism discourses should be sy…
Cultures of power in post-communist Russia
It has once again recently become evident for many political and International Relations (IR) scholars in the field of Russian Studies that the purely institutional approach to the perspectives of
Is ‘E’ for ‘Empire’
This article couples framing analyses with social identity issues to provide a critical discourse analysis of the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony, along with the various media depictions surrounding it. Moreover, it explores the idea of ‘derzhava’ as a rediscovered political narrative/frame in Russian symbolic politics. We argue that images and symbols alluding to different events in the past and present play significant roles in the social const…
Russia's 'fortresses of solitude
Based on the distinction between three approaches to loneliness, and the development of the phenomenological and existential framework of loneliness studies, this article explores Russia's discourse of national loneliness on three levels: a) the level of the official discourse of the Russian government; b) the level of political and philosophical concepts; and c) the level of popular media and cinema (with a specific focus on a case-study of the …
The Politics of Russian Revisionism
Russia’s use of force in Ukraine has been described as a challenge to the rule of international law and an event of unilateral intervention. This paper provides a reinterpretation of this standard history of Russian revisionism. Our new history places this practice in a global governance context through an analysis of the politics concerning the international legal norm of ‘non-intervention’ and its legitimate/illegitimate exceptions for collecti…
Civilizational model and identification of individuals with macropolitical communities (on the problem of sovereignty)
Global Russians’
International audience
When Women Speak Phallocentric Positionalities
This article approaches an emerging archipelago of visual biopolitics from two grounds: ontological security studies, and black feminist existentialism. The first perspective deals with visual representations that encapsulate (hu)man anxiety about the imaginary loss of a stable, unique and complete identity. And secondly, feminist existentialism provides an apparatus to reveal how these representations are underpinned by a (hu)man desire to avoid…
“Tass Is Authorised to Declare…”
This article combines two approaches: ontological security studies and intertextual analysis of espionage in popular films and television series. It explores the intertextual resonance between cinematic representations of late Cold War Soviet foreign affairs anxieties and the political management of ontological security in contemporary Russia. The article focuses on representations of espionage in the form of American spies and Russian traitors i…
Taking Putin’s jokes seriously
The article analyzes President Vladimir Putin’s gender-based humor as a way of exploring Russia’s ontological insecurity. Our research explores how Russia’s masculine ontological insecurities are trapped in the realities of patriarchy challenged in a contemporary globalized world. We integrate a constructivist ontology with poststructuralist attention to language to understand the role of gender-based humor in the (re)production of gendered hiera…
Sovereignty as ‘organized loneliness
This article studies sovereignty not only in relation to state, identity, or power but also in relation to the distinction between concepts of ‘loneliness’ and ‘solitude.’ Considering this goal, it analyses ‘loneliness’ as a concept with potentially deep explanatory value when posing major questions in political theory. It also explores its relationship with ‘sovereignty’ and ‘political identity.’ Building on the existing literature on the connec…
Madonna versus 'Mother Russia?' Visual Anthropology of Loneliness and Gendered Nationalism on Russian 2021-2023 Political Posters
This article is aimed at transdisciplinary (critical International Relations, visual anthropology, and existential philosophy) analysis of Russian gendered nationalism and masculine ontological insecurities. It explores and re-imagines how visual representations of 'Mother Russia' became signifiers of the phallocentric voice of the Russian gendered state. What can return the voice back to the 'invisible women'? I claim that the political activism…
The seagull of loneliness in the ocean of international anxiety
The article is innovative in the way it brings the history of Russian existentialism into dialogue with current debates in two approaches to world politics: “global International Relations” and “ontological security studies”. Both approaches seek to decentre modern politics, dismantle its hegemonic structures without essentialising new borders, and disentangle the individual Self from the traps of national and imperial ontological insecurities. M…
Political science (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Loneliness (5 obras) · Existentialism (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)